Muskie School of Public Service

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Opportunities for Giving

• Annual Scholarships
• Endowments

Welcome to the Muskie School's Opportunities for Giving web page. Your gift will be used to further the mission of the Muskie School - to cultivate leaders, and develop and implement innovative ways to practice public service. Faculty, staff and students engage directly in the communities we serve, reflect on what we learn and create new knowledge to benefit the common good.

The Muskie School, a dynamic institution and vital resource for Maine and the nation:

• enrolls over 200 graduate students a year and more than 350 alumni working in government, private and non-profit settings around the world. (For a sampling of where our graduates have been employed, see the School's Alumni Profile page.
• offers master's degrees in community planning & development, health policy & management, and public policy & management, and a doctorate in public policy; and
• works in every state in the nation through such national and regional programs as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Community Partnerships for Older Adults, the EPA New England Environmental Finance Center and the National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement.

Scholarships are critical in attracting quality students to our programs. Traditionally, graduate education's scholarships and assistantships have been funded by public resources. However, those sources of funds have been declining annually. For the Muskie School to be competitive in attracting and sustaining students and to create learning opportunities for these future leaders of the public sector, philanthropic funding of our scholarship program is crucial. Our fundraising priority is to build a strong foundation for student scholarships by creating a stable and dependable base of annual and endowed financial resources.

Scholarships also help students focus their energies on their graduate studies and ensure that they will have the resources to complete their graduate studies. It also creates avenues for additional support through assistantships and internships in the School's substantial research activities.

There are a number of ways in which you can contribute to the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service. Your gift is critically important. We hope you will consider contributing to the School.

Thank you to all who contributed to the new building for the Muskie School. For a final report on the building campaign and an update on the progress of the building construction, please visit Muskie Building Update.